Posted by aziraphael at dsl153.131.wincom.net on November 06, 2003 at 09:08:50:
so last night I was looking forward to a relaxing bath - Mrs.A was out for the night and my daughter safely asleep in bed. I started running the bathwater and went down into the basement to grab the recycling boxes to put out. I come back upstairs and somehow Kitty (hereafter referred to as the butthead cat) had gone into the bathroom, closing the door behind her which promptly locked by itself (still a mystery) and is yowling away like a banshee.
So I go tearing into the kitchen (visions of a major flood ruining our nice new bathroom) wrench out the drawers hunting for the little pokey thing that's supposed to unlock the handle from the outside. Can I find it? Not on your nelly. So finally I ended up booting the bathroom door in. cracked the door along its edge, and sent bits of the lock flying all over.
So whilst my relaxing bath was going cold I replaced the lock and then glued and clamped the door back together with c-clamps (g-clamps for our British readers). I was not best pleased. Mrs.A got home just in time to stop me from lynching the cat.
my daughter slept through the entire thing - proof that she inherited at least one characteristic from me...
gad...